Thread: Apps and Add-ons for iPhone

Apps and Add-ons for iPhone

Skype (free): You've most likely heard of Skype, a voice/video service that makes communication a breeze on your desktop. On an iPhone, though, it's a revelation. Calling cell phones and landlines back home over WiFi is cheap with Skype. While regular overseas calls can add up to hundreds of dollars, we made more than a dozen back home - for a total of about $2.50.

Mophie Juice Pack ($99.95): Though not an app, this piece of hardware is as essential as anything you can find in the App Store. Using this external battery pack, which adds hours of life to your iPhone, but little bulk, we never came close to running out of power. Only once, after a long day that included downloading two episodes of "Lost" and making a couple of Skype calls, did the Mophie fully drain, and that's no problem as the iPhone's internal battery, kept fresh all day, kicks right in.

Drop7 ($2.99) and Plants Vs. Zombies ($2.99): Sitting on a plane for 21 hours is enough to drive you nuts. All the music and movies we brought with us only filled a fraction of the time. Thank goodness for these two time-wasters: Drop 7, a clever puzzle game, and Plants vs. Zombies, a PC tower-defense classic that finally hit the iPhone - just in time for our return trip.

Travelocity (free): Speaking of never ending flights, we kept track of our flight numbers, departure times, layovers and connections with the *Travelocity app. The flights we booked using the discount travel site automatically downloaded to our iPhone - confirmation number, flight status and all.

Currency (free): How many Thai baht could we spend before we went completely broke? A lot, as it turned out, but Currency, an easy and up-to-date conversion tool, kept us honest.

Translator with Voice ($2.99): We could look past the fact it appeared on our home screen misspelled as "Translater" and made us sound like a robot with a dying battery, but the fact that its Thai translation was limited to the incomprehensible (to us) Thai alphabet and provided no phonetic spellings or pronunciations made it a nonstarter.

Appsniper is probably one of the best apps i have used. Reason being i paid $4.99 for it and it was able to locate 3 apps for free which i would have paid well above $15. So i was able to recoup and save money by installing it within hr of buying it.

Shazam is also a greap app and its free.

Cheers